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A stunning social history of British rap and grime by one of the nation's foremost cultural chroniclers.'A stunning exploration of a genre, a movement and a world. It's every bit...

Duncan Edwards played his first game for Manchester United at the age of fifteen and Walter Winterbottom, then England manager, called him 'the spirit of British football'. On GBP15-a-week, Edwards...

In his masterful story 'A River in Egypt', David Means paints a portrait of a moment. Cavanaugh and his young son are suspended; trapped in what a nurse calls 'the...

On the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his childhood years first in a guest house for consumptives run by his mother and then as apprentice to alcoholic...

Everybody expects the report to say they are a delight. They are very bright. They are pure as light. But they are small dogs Headmistress. I must report what I...

Such an animal is difficult to tame and always likely, when suddenly alarmed, to give our finger a nasty nip with its teeth. While dipping into The Children's Encyclopaedia of...

It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was the most famous detective in all Russia. He was the favourite of...

Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962. WINNIE: [ . . .] Well anyway - this man Shower...

In About Churchill , Philip Roberts presents not only an analysis of Caryl Churchill's published work, but also an account of eleven of her unpublished pieces, lent by the playwright....

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

Maria Tambini is a thirteen-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up in the 1970s above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, she is making...

With Death in Holy Orders, P. D. James makes a triumphant return to the genre for which she is best known - the classic English detective story. The story is...

The book titled Threatening Eye by the author Lesley Grant-Adamson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A rich and powerful mystery introducing Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the 8th Earl of Asherton. Lynley and Sgt. Barbara Havers are asked to solve the particularly brutal murder of...

A tragic accident and its lasting impact upon two generations of a big American family, by the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The Short History of a Prince Women on...

New in paperback. hree tons of Saddam Hussein's gold in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai...For two of Nick Stone s closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect,...

The incendiary new thriller from the bestselling author of Remote Control and Crisis Four. elsinki, December 1999. Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now a 'K' working for British Intelligence on deniable operations,...

This volume provides a comprehensive and even-handed overview of the debate concerning biological origins. This has been a controversial debate ever since Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859....

This entertaining book takes a quirky look at the world of flexible objects, those items that fold out for use and then fold back in again to save space. Per...

No other sport has football's popularity: none has such vibrant, visual, diverse culture attached to it. It is a way of life with its own symbols and iconography, and a...

People who saw the first moving pictures at the end of the nineteenth century were delighted by a new art that communicated without words - yet they were also alarmed...

The arrival of Christopher Columbus on American shores, albeit controversial, remains one of the most consequential events in world history. In "Columbus in the Americas", acclaimed and bestselling author William...

"Probiotic Rescue is your road map to the safe and effective use of probiotic supplements for health and disease prevention." - Donald J. Brown, N.D. Probiotics will improve your health!...

In The Birth of the Mind, award-winning cognitive scientist Gary Marcus irrevocably alters the nature vs. nurture debate by linking the findings of the Human Genome Project to the development...

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In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story -- of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center...

A daring journey of adventure, courage & romance, traversing the world from Casablanca to Lisbon to New York to London to Prague & then Paris, expanding & intensifying the classic...

When a teacher is found dead, having apparently committed suicide, his friend and collegue takes over class 4F and finds himself responsible for a group of subdued, well-behaved but strangely...

Lissy Jablonski is trying to work out how she got to be twenty-nine, P regnant, and boyfriend-less. In the midst of dealing with her old friend Church and his impending...

These twelve short stories vividly bring to life the daily dramas of Chinese men and women who are starting to feel the influence of the West while still immersed in...

A leading trial consultant gives an inside look at the courtroom and justice system that explains how some of the most controversial verdicts in recent times came to be. There...

A reference on the technology of flat breads. This volume focuses on a range of topics, from the historic background of cereal cultivation to the advanced research finding of flat...

After seasons of experience with Ryan's Hope, All My Children, and The Edge of Night, an Emmy-winning soap opera actress makes her debut as a novelist in what promises to...

The book titled In the Lake of the Woods by the author Tim O'Brien. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported...

The Encyclopedia of Religious and Philosophical Writings in Late Antiquity offers easily accessible introductions to the content and historical setting of the main writings of Greco-Roman paganism, early Judaism, and...

In her stunning new novel, Gruen returns to the kind of storytelling she excelled at in Water for Elephants : a historical timeframe in an unusual setting with a creature...

In the high-octane sequel to Boy Soldier, seventeen-year-old Danny and his grandfather, ex-SAS explosives expert Fergus, are on the run again, with their cover in southern Spain blown. Encouraged by...

Deliciously funny, fact-filled and adventurous, In a Sunburned Country takes us on a grand tour of Australia. It's a place where interesting things happen all the time, from a Prime...

As book reviewer for NPR's Fresh Air and contributor to many publications, Maureen Corrigan literally reads for a living. For as long as she can remember, books have been at...

A super-charged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a Yellow Man, an inmate on death row...

THE AUTHOR OF "SMALL ISLAND "TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICA "Small Island "introduced Andrea Levy to...

Rule One: Travel can only occur to a point within your lifetime. Rule Two: You can only travel for ninety seconds. Rule Three: You can only observe. The rules cannot...